Trevor Little (Trevturtle) - Treasurer Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 https://www.visualcapitalist.com/problem-with-our-maps/ Interesting read, never realised how the maps we use distort the size of different countries. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blatman Posted September 14, 2021 Share Posted September 14, 2021 This was in an episode of The West Wing back in 1999. Very interesting as the writers used the genuine research information in an episode called "The Crackpots and These Women." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pistonbroke Posted September 14, 2021 Share Posted September 14, 2021 That explains why I keep running into the I.O.M. every time I try to sail to Scotland 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blatman Posted September 14, 2021 Share Posted September 14, 2021 2 hours ago, pistonbroke said: That explains why I keep running into the I.O.M. every time I try to sail to Scotland Rather begs the question where are you sailing FROM? 😄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO Posted September 14, 2021 Share Posted September 14, 2021 15 hours ago, Trevor Little (Trevturtle) - AO Representative said: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/problem-with-our-maps/ Interesting read, never realised how the maps we use distort the size of different countries. Don't you just take the first left and then follow @Julie Hall - Joint Peak District AO ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor Little (Trevturtle) - Treasurer Posted September 14, 2021 Author Share Posted September 14, 2021 9 minutes ago, Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO said: Don't you just take the first left and then follow @Julie Hall - Joint Peak District AO ? correct 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pistonbroke Posted September 14, 2021 Share Posted September 14, 2021 1 hour ago, Blatman said: Rather begs the question where are you sailing FROM? 😄 Usually home port of Conwy . IOM is a good stopping off place en route , plenty of options from there weatherwise ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SootySport Posted September 19, 2021 Share Posted September 19, 2021 Some say all the maps are all upside down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corsechris Posted September 19, 2021 Share Posted September 19, 2021 Unintentionally misleading cartography is one thing… …this is something else though… I find it inexplicably worrying that there seem to be people that actually believe this is a true representation of reality…. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Barlow - Show and Events Co-ordinator Posted September 19, 2021 Share Posted September 19, 2021 I remember the first time I visited Japan I was shocked (as an English man) to see a world map with another country in the middle 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blatman Posted September 19, 2021 Share Posted September 19, 2021 6 hours ago, SootySport said: Some say all the maps are all upside down. Another one of the theories of cartography. It is suggested that current maps/globes place a lot of emphasis on the northern hemisphere. Orthere is just more land up here... but it's a theory... When viewed from space though there is no such thing as "the right way up" so an approaching vessel might well view our planet from the "other" way. Or sideways even... I know it's a telly show but this is all based on real scientific and socio-politico theories and research: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SootySport Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 On 19/09/2021 at 23:03, Blatman said: Another one of the theories of cartography. It is suggested that current maps/globes place a lot of emphasis on the northern hemisphere. Orthere is just more land up here... but it's a theory... When viewed from space though there is no such thing as "the right way up" so an approaching vessel might well view our planet from the "other" way. Or sideways even... I know it's a telly show but this is all based on real scientific and socio-politico theories and research: So I was right all along Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 Surely the concept of which way up re cartography, is so closely tied in to magnetic pole etc, that even when it was found to move around and not be quite at the cartographic pole, it was too ingrained to change, by then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pistonbroke Posted October 2, 2021 Share Posted October 2, 2021 When the first maps were drawn the earth was flat , little if nothing was known of land other than the small area around the med . The southern hemisphere didnt exist until Cook Magellan etc . by that time the convention was to have North at the top Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blatman Posted October 2, 2021 Share Posted October 2, 2021 57 minutes ago, pistonbroke said: When the first maps were drawn the earth was flat The earth was never flat... https://theflatearthsociety.org/home/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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